The Beast Within

Chapter Twenty-Five: Retry

Jerome picked up his daughter in the morning without speaking a word to Nyssa he just glared at her and left, an hour later Jeremiah knocked on the door and she let him in, they sat on the couch awkwardly and glanced at each other every now and again until he finally broke the silence "I take it Jerome wasn't very happy?" she shook her head and Jeremiah noticed a tiny bruise on her left cheek and he narrowed his eyes angrily he looked and saw her wrist was bruised from where grabbed her "did he hit you!?" she rubbed his arm gently and sent him a small smile "Miah please.. I'm fine, it didn't hurt" he shook his head and cupped her cheek and ran his thumb over her bruise "a man should never lay his hands on a woman" he grabbed her arm and inspected the bruises and looked at her questioningly "I went to hit him back.. but he grabbed my wrist and told me not too or he'd hit me again" Jeremiah looked at her sadly and kissed her hand lightly "I'm so sorry he did that darling" "I'm fine Miah.. he just needs to calm down" Jeremiah didn't understand why she was trying to make excuses for his brother's abuse, but he knew it wasn't his place to say anything, he pulled her into his lap and she straddled his waist and he smashed his lips onto hers at first she hesitated but slowly kissed him back.

Jerome searched frantically around the house to find his daughter's little ducky blanket toy that she couldn't sleep without, desperate he asked Ecco to watch the kids and drove back to Nyssa's, he walked down the hall and was about to knock on her door when he heard voices "I- I can't.. I love Jerome" "but doesn't it feel good darling?" Jerome's anger rose quickly knowing exactly whose voice that belonged to "Miah.. he'll kill you" "do you want me to stop?" Jerome listened and had hope in his heart that she would but what she said next turned his blood cold "don't stop.. but Jerome can never know" "you have my word" fed up with listening he quickly kicked the door hard and it flung open, Jerome stared at them with anger, betrayal and insanity in his eyes.

Nyssa quickly jumped off of him and Jeremiah stood to his feet, before he could get a single word in Jerome threw a hard punch to his face breaking his nose and Nyssa screamed out, she pushed Jerome off his brother yelling at him "Jerome what the fuck!? you broke his nose!" he glared at her and pushed her back hard "he's lucky I don't break his fucking neck!" he went to lunge at Jeremiah again but Nyssa quickly stopped him and pushed him back "Nyssa, fucking move! I don't want to hurt you!" "so now you feel like not hurting her.. what about yesterday brother!?" Nyssa turned to Jeremiah and Jerome radiated with rage "Miah don't! Jerome leave" he pushed her again but she pushed him back "Jerome don't!" Jeremiah glared at Jerome who was trying to get past Nyssa to get to him "what are you going to do Jerome!? hit her to get to me!?" "Jeremiah.. shut up!" Nyssa said trying to hold Jerome back but it was getting difficult for her.

She wasn't as angry as he was and she didn't want to use her powers on him "you better fucking run Miah! cause when I catch you.. I'll rip your head off your body!" Nyssa turned to Jeremiah with pleading eyes and got the hint, he quickly left and Nyssa stopped Jerome from chasing him "stop it Jerome! leave him alone!" she said pushing him back hard and he glared at her "are you fucking serious Nyssa!? you tell me it was a mistake and now I find you almost fucking him!?" "maybe it would have just stayed a mistake if you didn't hit me yesterday!" "I shouldn't have hit you.. that's on me.. but what the fuck!? he's my fucking brother!" "I'm sorry okay! I was hurt and angry at you.. and he made me feel better" "he did or his dick did!? because I'm having trouble believing you two haven't fucked!" "we haven't! I can't and I wouldn't go that far anyway!" "I don't fucking believe you!" "what happened to trust!?" "trust!? fucking trust went out the window for us a long time ago baby!" he said angrily cackling.

"Jerome.. I don't want to fight with you anymore" "then don't piss me off by doing shit that will cause a fight!" she sighed and sat on the couch and Jerome watched her in confusion and anger "what are you doing?" she shrugged her shoulders and laid down "I'm tired.. I don't want to fight with you anymore" "you can't just decide to sleep in the middle of an argument for something you did!" "I admitted to my mistake.. I apologized and I explained my reasoning behind it.. you just wanna yell for the sake of yelling.. I'm tired and I'm done arguing" Jerome stared at her baffled "are you fucking serious!?" "Jerome I'm not going to argue anymore.. you can stay here and yell at me till you calm down and we can talk rationally or you can leave.. either way I'm not moving from this spot until the yelling stops" he could see she was completely serious.

The front door shut and she opened her eyes to see Jerome going and sitting on the small one seater couch in the corner and held his head in his hands, they both stayed like that for almost an hour "I'm sorry" her eyes shot open in surprise and saw Jerome looking at her, she sat up and he walked over to her and kneeled in front of her "I'm sorry Nyss.. I'm sorry for all of this shit, I love you and I don't want to lose you" she stayed silent and he sighed and cupped her cheek and ran his thumb over her faint bruise "I'm sorry I hurt you.. I know you're mad at me.. but please don't hate me baby" she had tears in her eyes and she slightly leaned into his hand "I don't hate you.. I could never hate you" he sat up high on his knees and rested his forehead against hers and he watched her tears drop from her lashes down onto her lap, he wiped her cheeks and lifted her head up to face him "I know we have a long way to go.. and we both did things that we need to get over.. it's going to take time.. but I want to try, I love you baby and I just can't lose you.. not again" she nodded her head slowly and looked him through her glossy eyes "I love you too.. I want to try" he gave her a small smile and pulled her in for a hug "I love you Nyssa.. I'm sorry for everything" "I'm sorry too" he held her close then pulled back and lightly pecked her on the lips and she didn't stop him.